Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 22, 2022

The ocean is a vast and beautiful home to so many incredible animals. However, a growing number of creatures are finding their ocean homes polluted by trash. Every year, 11 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean. Together, we can keep plastics out of our ocean and away from ocean wildlife. Hermit Crabs.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

2021) show that the trends in the EEI derived from CERES match what you get from the changes in ocean heat content. Satellite-derived trends in EEI compared to estimates from changes in ocean heat (Loeb et al., Koonin, "Earth's Albedo 1998–2017 as Measured From Earthshine", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. Shoumko, S.

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Science & Climate

JANUARY 26, 2021

Ocean Toxin a Heartbreaking Threat for Sea Otters. Domoic Acid Raises Risk of Fatal Heart Disease for Otters in a Warming Ocean. The world’s ocean temperatures in 2020 were the third highest on record, and all five of the oceans’ hottest years on record occurred in the past five years. . Over-exposed otters.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

LISA LINOWES and ERIC TURNER on behalf of the SAVE RIGHT WHALES COALITION Since 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared three Unusual Mortality Events (UME) involving large whale species in the Atlantic Ocean. The UMEs for the humpback and minke whales include deaths in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

They are also marine outfalls, which means the only treatment the sewage receives before being pumped into the ocean is maceration through a three millimeter sieve to remove solids and grit. Further studies found some of these chemical compounds accumulating in fish in False Bay, on the Indian Ocean side of the city.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 23, 2023

By Emma Foehringer Merchant When wildfires spread through parts of Northern California wine country in 2017, they melted electronics, combusted cars and exploded propane tanks. The fires sent acrid smoke billowing into the sky, its footprint wafting over the state and extending for 500 miles into the Pacific Ocean.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

degrees Fahrenheit between 1951 and 2017.” Now, though, climate is changing rivers, lakes and oceans, forcing a renegotiation of our relationships to those bodies of water. ” Moreover, “average temperatures in the Great Lakes region rose 2.3 ” Climate change is hitting home right in the middle of the country.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average. Today, Carolina Gold is cultivated by only a handful of small-scale farmers. .

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

2020), and can cause an increase in vertical wind shear over the Atlantic ( Kossin 2017 ; Ting et al. 390-393, 2017. Bennartz, "The Role of Aerosols in the Evolution of Tropical North Atlantic Ocean Temperature Anomalies", Science , vol. All three of these factors have a powerful quelling effect on tropical storm formation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms. .” After all, we hardly had storms or hurricanes in the news for the past 3 months.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Ocean Conservancy has compiled the data collected during this global volunteer effort on behalf of ocean health since the ICC’s start in 1986. Now, a new collaboration between Ocean Conservancy, PADI AWARE Foundation and scientists at CSIRO has resulted in the first global map of plastic hotspots. Never miss an update.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 26, 2022

This blog was co-written by Hannah De Frond, Hannah works with the Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto Trash Team to coordinate the International Trash Trap Network, with the aim to expand the use of trash trapping technologies, and to document the collective impact of installing trash traps around the world. Never miss an update.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Rob Lachlan As ocean temperatures rise, corals can lose their color due to heat stress. One of the worst mass bleaching events occurred in 2016 and 2017 on the Great Barrier Reef, causing bleaching on 91% of the system’s reefs.

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Physics World

AUGUST 1, 2021

The idea is to boost the natural process by which carbon dioxide in precipitation reacts with soils and rocks to form bicarbonate ions, which eventually find their way into oceans via rivers.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Based on the most comprehensive winter study to date, conducted in the Southern Ocean during July and August 2017, scientists were able to show that phytoplankton were indeed active during the icy cold and dark winter months. Read the full story from Stellenbosch University.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). filed June 9, 2017).

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

candidate at Florida international University and intern with Ocean Conservancy. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. This blog was written by Kassidy Troxell, a Ph.D. The post What is Nitrogen Pollution?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

Meanwhile, less than 100 miles away from the governor’s office as the gull flies, a strong wind was blowing over the ocean south of Martha’s Vineyard. 1 megawatt-hour is 1,000 kilowatt-hours.)

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 22, 2022

In the summer of 2017/18, 50 children died compared to this season’s 20. Later, as the heavier winter rains set in, the pollution is flushed from the streets and fields into the rivers and ocean, coinciding with a drop in reported diarrhea cases. Compared to the last pre-covid month, February 2020, the increase is 80%.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

November 11, 2017. Oceans Action Day. The one day in a climate change conference where the oceans become the center of discussion. Because The Ocean” Declaration. Conserve and Sustainably Use the Oceans, Seas and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development. By Val Fajardo, 3L Student at Vermont Law School.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

About 90% of its farms are considered “family owned,” according to the 2017 US Department of Agriculture farm census. From 2002 to 2017, the most recent USDA farm census, the number of farms in Kings County declined 16.6%. Like its neighbors, Kings is intensively farmed. The data show that’s already happening.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

They start their lives in freshwater, migrate to the ocean for most of their lives, and then return to freshwater rivers and streams to spawn and die. Before salmon enter the ocean, they must find clean and cold waters to forage and grow.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

A high proportion of plastic waste ends up in seas and oceans – estimates suggest that more than 250,000 tons of plastic debris are currently floating around in oceans all over the world. . Plastics are taking over the oceans.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 28, 2021

Abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear—also known as ghost gear—is one of the most visually arresting forms of ocean plastic pollution. That’s why the Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI) first released the Best Practice Framework for the Management of Fishing Gear (BPF) for Capture Fisheries, or C-BPF, in 2017. Never miss an update.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Like many other women-led and community-based organizations in Puerto Rico, Taller Salud has taken up the recovery and resilience development in their communities to face the acute climatic, economic, and social crisis that Puerto Rico is facing after the devastation caused by Hurricane María in 2017.

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JUNE 7, 2021

The 2021 honorees are-- -- Young Woman of Conservation Leadership: Hannah Burke, Schuylkill County: A Senior at Blue Mountain Area High School, CEO of Best Buds All Natural Gardening - a conservation business she founded in 2017, Schuylkill Haven Community Garden Manager, and Vice President of the Schuylkill County 4-H teen council. -- Woman of the (..)

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Frontiers

JULY 20, 2023

The global scale of plastic production means that these tiny fragments of plastic are now ubiquitous, and scientists fear that ocean currents will cause plastic to accumulate in the Arctic, damaging ecosystems. It is even found in the polar oceans and the deepest ocean trenches.” and 10cm in size) for a different study.

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Physics World

JUNE 5, 2021

In the past few years, physicists have begun to realize that it could have a major role in fluid dynamics – the Earth’s oceans, for example, or plasmas, or the biological cells in fluid-like “active” matter. First of all, the slim layers of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans can be approximated as 2D. But how many waves?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion. However, during half that time, from 2015-2021, the direct costs to federal government for disasters was $315 billion.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

By Delaney Dryfoos In San Felipe, a fishing town on the northeast edge of Baja California, the use and transportation of gillnets have been banned by the Mexican government since 2017 as a measure to protect the rare vaquita porpoise.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 2, 2023

Single-use plastic items persist indefinitely in our marine environment, collecting in rivers, streams and ultimately the ocean, endangering and entangling wildlife along the way. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. Will this smoke alarm wake us up?” So far, no alarm bell has been loud enough to stop the sleepwalking. A harsh new normal Whether we wake up or not, a harsh climate is the new normal.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. From 2015 to 2017, Pacific cod abundance declined by over 70%. © Ocean Conservancy. © Ocean Conservancy. For fisheries to survive the challenges of climate change, we need more research to understand how they will respond to changing ocean conditions.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 25, 2021

See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. We know the toll that plastic pollution takes on our ocean, and abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear—or ghost gear—is particularly harmful. Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763.

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Physics World

MAY 19, 2021

Wallner’s team has shed new light on this debate by analysing a core sample of Earth’s crust, taken from 1500 m below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Among the most popular ideas is that r-process nuclides are produced during neutron star mergers – such as the event detected in 2017 by gravitational-wave and conventional telescopes.

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